Given Government inaction on climate change, could we begin to see motivated individuals or groups taking matters into their own hands and targeting fossil fuel infrastructure in this manner?
That’s why international attacks are more prevalent and bold: they’re not as easily traceable. However, that also comes with its downsides: if the USG wants, it might just use lethal force against you.
So ultimately the people who tend to do this repeatedly end up being state owned or state protected actors, who are likely offered some sort of protection by their State from retribution by the USG.
Environmentalists used to chain themselves to trees. Would the same physical actions work for climate change?
Its difficult to see the public being opposed to this when coal infrastructure is on the edge of irrelevancy anyway and easily replaced.